By: Jessie Kesson, adapted by Jenni Fagan
By: Jessie Kesson, adapted by Jenni Fagan
Directed by: Caitlin Skinner
Co-produced by: Stellar Quines and Edinburgh International Book Festival
First broadcast on BBC radio in 1983, You’ve Never Slept in Mine by Jessie Kesson provided a glimpse into the lives of young women in a residential children’s home.
Today it provides the inspiration for a new collaboration.
You’ve Never Slept in Mine by Jessie Kesson was first broadcast as a BBC radio in 1983. Stellar Quines along with actors Genna Allan and Chloe Wyper from the Citizens Theatre’s WAC Ensemble – Scotland’s first professionally supported theatre company for performers and theatremakers with care experience – have worked closely with novelist Jenni Fagan to create a masterful adaption.
It is performed script-in-hand, followed by an on-stage discussion with the cast, Jenni Fagan and Caitlin Skinner.
Born in an Inverness workhouse in 1916, Jessie Kesson spent her early childhood in an Elgin slum before being moved to an orphanage and eventually being sent to work in service. Despite her inauspicious beginnings, she went on to become an acclaimed writer, often drawing on her early life experiences. Best known for her novels The White Bird Passes and Another Time, Another Place, she also published poetry, short stories and more than 100 plays including You’ve Never Slept in Mine.
This is a live event with an author Q&A. Authors and participants will be on stage, in the venue.
Supported by the Dr David Summers Charitable Trust.
With special thanks to The Citizens Theatre WAC Ensemble.
